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Missionaries and the Use of Force

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 24.

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Missionaries and the Use of Force

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Times, referring to the movement made by the United States government to collect by force, and the urgent demand of the missionaries and churches that the government shall collect by force, the $88,000 damages for ill treatment of the missionaries in Turkey, very pointedly remarks: “I wonder if those missionaries who favor the use of force, in the event of the sultan’s refusing to pay, have ever read the Biblical injunction, ‘And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other’?”